2.  1900 Boxer rebellion in China
 1900 Russia annexes Manchuria
 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance agreed
 1902 Series of commercial treaties between
China and Britain, United States, and Japan
 1902 Ibn Saud captures Riyadh, beginning the
creation of Saudi Arabia
 1903 British viceroy of India (Lord Curzon)
sends an expedition into Tibet

3.  1905 Japan presses Korea to sign a treaty
whereby Japan protects Korea
 1905 Japanese navy fights and defeats
Russian fleet in Tsushima strait 1907 Emperor
Kojong of Korea abdicates; he is succeeded
by his son Sujong
 1908 Death of Chinese empress dowager Cixi
and of the Guangxu emperor

4.  1911-12 Chinese rebellion against Manchus;
republic is established, Sun Yat-sen first
president, but warlords gain power
 1912-26 Taisho period in Japan
 1912 Japan constructs its first dreadnought
battleship
 1913 China recognizes Outer Mongolia as
independent
 1913 Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, awarded
Nobel Prize for Literature
 1916 Beginning of Arab revolt against Ottoman
Turks in Hijaz

5.  1916 Hussein proclaims himself King of the
Arabs
 1917 Balfour Declaration promises homeland
for Jews in Palestine
 1917 British troops capture Baghdad and
Jerusalem
 1917-25 Sun Yat-sen struggles for leadership
of Chinese republic
 1918 Emir Faisal proclaims Syrian state;
becomes king in

6. PEACE AND WAR
 1919 British troops massacre over 300 Indian
civilians at Amritsar
 1920 Palestine becomes British mandate
 1920 Indian leader Gandhi launches peaceful
non-cooperation movement against British
rule